I don't think you have a good idea of what most boarding schools are like. At least in my experience, we were afforded an enormous amount of freedom. Certainly

I don't think you have a good idea of what most boarding schools are like. At least in my experience, we were afforded an enormous amount of freedom. Certainly there are not enough staff to provide each student with anything like the amount of helicoptering that many students receive at home. It's much more like college than normal high school, with nobody checking monitoring your every moment. Remember, helicopter parenting and privilege are not the same thing (though they are related). You can have very wealthy and disengaged parents and you can have overly involved poor parents. How do you think it would even be possible for staff to constantly helicopter children at the level that parents typically do?